|a Introducing A garland of feminist reflections -- How did this ever happen to me? : a Wisconsin farm girl who became a Buddhist theologian when she grew up -- Five essays on method -- Androcentrism and androgyny in the methodology of history of religions -- Where have we been? Where do we need to go? : key questions for women studies in religion and feminist theology -- The place of the personal and the subjective in religious studies -- Methodology : tool or trap? : comments from a feminist perspective -- What went wrong? : feminism and freedom from the prison of gender roles -- Theory applied : three tests -- Menstruation and childbirth as ritual and religious experience among native Australians -- Toward a new model of the Hindu pantheon : a report on twenty-some years of feminist reflection -- The prepatriarchal hypothesis : an assessment -- Feminist theology -- Steps toward feminine imagery of deity in Jewish theology -- Is the (Hindu) goddess a feminist? -- Life-giving images in Vajrayana Buddhist ritual -- Feminist theology as theology of religions -- Buddhist Feminism : Feminist Buddhism -- The clarity in the anger -- Why (engaged) Buddhists should care about gender issues -- The dharma of gender -- Yeshe Tsogyel : enlightened consort, great teacher, female role model -- Buddhist women and teaching authority -- Is the glass half-empty or half-full? : a feminist assessment of Buddhism at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Being a North American Buddhist woman : reflections of a feminist pioneer.